Re: za daigaku

On 7/26/05 8:04 PM, "jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" typed:

> Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>
>> But I bet they never call it "the OSU," while I taught at "the UH" for
>> 23 years!
>
> There was some discussion here of such usage recently. We have
> heaps of organizations known by their initials, and some
> always have a definite article (the ABC, the ALP, the VCA, etc.)
> and others never do (BHP, CRA, QUT, etc.) No-one seems to be able
> to generate a determinstic rule to explain it.
>
> Then you have cases like Handel's most famous work: "Messiah".
> Many people can't resist adding an article and calling it
> "The Messiah", but that's not its name, according to the
> guys who wrote it.

Guys? More than one wrote it? What was the other guy's handle?

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